The beggar's opera [videorecording] / by John Gay [music by J.C. Pepusch] ; a BBC-TV production in association with RM Arts ; produced and directed by Jonathan Miller.
Roger Daltrey (MacHeath) ; Bob Hoskins (Beggar) ; Stratford Johns (Peachum) ; Patricia Routledge (Mrs. Peachum) ; Carol Hall (Polly Peachum) ; Peter Bayliss (Lockit) ; Rosemary Ashe (Lucy Lockit) ; Graham Crowden (The player) ; Gary Tibbs (Filch) ; English Baroque soloists ; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor.
Summary:
A ballad opera set among London's 18th century criminal classes, full of satirical jibes about corruption in high places.
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